Re: lingo-l Protect content outside Director

2003-10-25 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Oct 23, 2003, at 1:54 AM, Univision wrote: I'm using video (mpg) in director movies, is there a way to protect this media, so they only can use it in the movie. Not really. Use QuickTime instead. You can attach a media key that prevents playback through any but approved means, such as your

Re: lingo-l Those OS's again and a question

2003-10-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 01:31 PM, Peter Witham wrote: I'd love it, personally, but that's because I'm a 'nix fan at heart and have been since I first installed Slackware on an ancient 486/33 with 8 MB back in the mid 90s. (That was a fun system -- it triple booted: Win3.11/DOS6, OS/2

Re: lingo-l [OT][XPOST] For a Linux Player

2003-10-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 02:27 PM, John Dowdell wrote: At 6:21 AM 10/16/3, Mathieu Senidre wrote: It's time to (re-)send a wish for a Linux Shockwave Player :) Don't forget to tell how much you'd pay in compensation. Right now we're probably up to about a thousand dollars just from

Re: lingo-l OSX baShortFileName

2003-10-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Alex da Franca wrote: I pulled out some of my favorite hair of the very few remaining I got... ;-) -- ||| a¿ex -- Yes, I see you did. Pretty soon you'll look like Colin, and then like me. http://www.nightwares.com/who/howdy.jpg -- WthmO [To

Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency

2003-10-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Because Windows, in general, sucks? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency

2003-10-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:40 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: If people have bad experiences with Windows, I've found it's usually because their computing practices contribute heavily to it's instability and seemingly negative qualities. I've never had a copy of Windows that was less

Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency

2003-10-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:39 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Because Windows, in general, sucks? Hey, them's fighting words! What do you mean in general? It's superior in

Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency

2003-10-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 07:18 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: How many other OSes are run on 90+% of the world's personal computers? UNIX. PCs and servers. Why are you being so defensive? Do you own MSFT stock? Do remember that mass appeal does not equal value. With that kind of

Re: lingo-l thanks

2003-10-13 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 09:38 PM, director wrote: well i do use director and i know this not a porn list or anything of that kind. Depends on when you read it. It can get a bit racy. however, i do appreciate the fact that the people of this list take their time to help those with less

Re: lingo-l OSX baShortFileName

2003-10-13 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 07:16 PM, Alex da Franca wrote: At 10:57 Uhr +1300 14.10.2003, Sean Wilson wrote: The thing I *always* miss with this function is that the file _must_ exist before you can obtain its shortName - at least this is the case with the Windows version. Perhaps this is

Re: lingo-l [X-Post] QuickTime and path length on Windows rant!

2003-10-10 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 03:19 AM, Alexandre Cop wrote: Really, nobody has ever had an issue with this? Damn, I must be unlucky!! You are, but it's a known issue anyway. Have you considered converting the video to spark in Flash MX? Or, since MP4 appears to work for you, why not use

Re: lingo-l [X-Post] QuickTime and path length on Windows rant!

2003-10-10 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 09:45 AM, Alexandre Cop wrote: Hi Warren, Hope all is well with you! Meh. ;) Really, nobody has ever had an issue with this? Damn, I must be unlucky!! You are, but it's a known issue anyway. Have you considered converting the video to spark in Flash MX? I

Re: lingo-l Lingo

2003-10-09 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 01:07 AM, Andrew Dempsey wrote: My wife keeps telling me at the end of the day to please STOP thinking and talking freely in lingo... Go figure. Which makes me think of rude things having to do with intersects testing. No wonder she's tired of the mumbling. ;)

Re: lingo-l Lingo

2003-10-09 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 05:07 PM, Andrew Dempsey wrote: You probably don't want to go there... Because then it opens up all kinds of lingo issues, like the width of member, show locals, the score, hotspot... Uh, I'd better stop there before the moderator kicks me off the list. We're

Re: lingo-l TRUE or FALSE

2003-10-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 08:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting vars to void on purpose makes absolutely no sense to me. It never has and it probably never will. Void means I haven't even been touched by code yet, so don't use me, while some other value (0 pr #null or ) means

Re: lingo-l TRUE or FALSE

2003-10-05 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 06:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, TRUE = anything non-zero ( VOID since that's also treated as zero) Ooh, Buzz, be careful there. I found out the hard way not to treat VOID as 0 or false. It most definitely is not. I reported this about 18 months ago,

Re: lingo-l RE: Concatenating property list values (mavinson@ra.rockwell.com)

2003-09-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Mindy McCutchan wrote: --only stores the tag title thisString = tempList[#tagTitle] - tempList[#tagArtist] RETURN No matter what method I use to store the information from the list, it won't even store anything that appears after the first . It

Re: lingo-l Autorun

2003-09-25 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 03:29 AM, Anand Ravi wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is a way to know within a projector if the CD-ROM has the autorun, or autoplay capabilities enabled. You could lok for the presense of the file autorun.inf in the root (on windows) to check if

Re: lingo-l Autorun

2003-09-24 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Fabiano de Aguiar Aniceto wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to know within a projector if the CD-ROM has the autorun, or autoplay capabilities enabled. My first guess would be no. That's a system setting. I suppose if you really wanted to

Re: lingo-l Miaw @ Daniel

2003-09-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003, at 10:39 America/Chicago, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: One of the strange things about lingo-l is that I don't get all posts. Another one is that the answer comes usually before the question. That's because you've got your tachyon filter turned off. If you get into

Re: lingo-l Open a folder

2003-09-22 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Sep 22, 2003, at 13:59 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I thought there would have been a method somewhere to open a folder...maybe in buddyAPI or the fileXtra or something. Is there any way to open a folder (not a file)? On Win it would be something like: open

Re: lingo-l MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

2003-09-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 12:16 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi list... When closing a MIAW, is it necessary to void a global variable for it after you do the close() and forget() methods on it? Rather than void I use 0. I don't let uninitialized (void) variables float around

Re: lingo-l MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

2003-09-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 18:20 America/Chicago, Daniel Nelson wrote: Just this morning, I solved a baffling bug related to this. If an object in a MIAW passes its instance to an object held in another window (or maybe if the window is referenced in some other window...I didn't resolve

Re: lingo-l MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

2003-09-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 19:38 America/Chicago, Bruce Mitchener wrote: Daniel Nelson wrote: Just this morning, I solved a baffling bug related to this. If an object in a MIAW passes its instance to an object held in another window (or maybe if the window is referenced in some other

Re: lingo-l MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

2003-09-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 20:56 America/Chicago, Daniel Nelson wrote: That's correct; the same thing happens with parent scripts as well. If all their internal props aren't zeroed first, An internal property only needs to be cleared if there is a circular reference or in cases such as the one

Re: lingo-l accessing scriptInstanceList in a MIAW: Bug...or just me?

2003-09-17 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 13:57 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: In author mode, I'm trying to debug something within a MIAW that was launched from the stage (i.e. a separate dir file). The breakpoint works, but the variables in that MIAW all display void, and so I can't debug

Re: lingo-l undocumented Lingo

2003-09-15 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 10:27 America/Chicago, Thomas Higgins wrote: It's not that Macromedia as a company doesn't want you to know about these items [...] We're not trying to be sneaky here. :) Riiight. We all know Macromedia is engaged in a massive disinformation conspiracy.

Re: lingo-l QT Controls problem - no need to answer.

2003-09-15 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 12:23 America/Chicago, Kristian wrote: Sorry about the confusing straightforward problem... No need to answer this, I got help in the [DIRECT-L] list. If anyone is interested in the real problem and the solution I will post/mail it. It wasn't that straightforward, as

Re: SV: lingo-l QT Controls problem - no need to answer.

2003-09-15 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 13:13 America/Chicago, Kristian wrote: It wasn't that straightforward, as it turned out. The QT sprite was loaded in frame 1 of Kristian's MIAW, and essentially hadn't fully got itself onscreen in time to receive his script's movieRate command. The solution appears to

Re: lingo-l using protected quicktime video in Director.

2003-09-11 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 22:31 America/Chicago, biju george wrote: But how can we protect the .avi / divx files. I think only .mov can support protected video. You can't. At some point or another a dedicated cracker will make it past your security. The question is how much you're willing

Re: lingo-l attaching behaviors at runtime

2003-09-10 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 12:19 America/Chicago, Craig Taylor wrote: Seems to work during authoring, but not at runtime. Have you used Score recording to make the attachments permanent, followed by a saveMovie call? saveMovie, BTW, will not work with any movie file rolled into the

Re: lingo-l FW: File IO - bad filename

2003-09-10 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 15:16 America/Chicago, Andy Talbot wrote: On my machine and every other machine I've tested this on it works fine. However the clients PC seems to be different, i'm using the traceLog to see what they're up to and basically fileIO is returning 'bad filename',

Re: lingo-l any body knows a good source of the info onprevaling wages

2003-09-07 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Sunday, Sep 7, 2003, at 20:17 America/Chicago, matt johansson wrote: alot of your US clients are getting work done down here in New Zealand and Australia. Taking advantage of the Exchange rates, getting work done for almost half the price of US Developers. We're run off our feet down here

Re: lingo-l Acrobat installer.

2003-09-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
My concern there is about Adobe's Licensing Cops. Do they send them after you for doing that, or is it kosher with them? (Never tried it myself; I'm basically too chicken. ;) On Saturday, Sep 6, 2003, at 20:31 America/Chicago, Stephen Ingrum wrote: ... basically, install Acrobat onto the CD,

Re: lingo-l unexpected selection of a text member

2003-09-05 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 11:22 America/Chicago, jean-louis valero wrote: Please list How to avoid the unexpected selection of a text member after we click on the stage previously in the background ? I've seen this discussed before but don't recall that there is any kind of certain way to

Re: lingo-l cpu usage

2003-09-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 18:55 America/Chicago, Tony Åström wrote: I check the topic on Direct-L and be back if I find an solution. If the program does not have to update its stage with regularity you can use 'pause' instead of 'go the frame'. If it does have to update its stage you might be

Re: lingo-l detecting quicktime player

2003-09-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 17:10 America/Chicago, matt johansson wrote: Cath has shown the 'quickTimeVersion', whats the other method? There's quickTimePresent, but that only tells you whether QT is installed or not (true/false), not the version. I was being a little tongue-in-cheek there and

Re: lingo-l Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra

2003-09-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 18:51 America/Chicago, Tab Julius wrote: Which brings another thought to mind. FastFiler's (whatever that annoying app is that catalogs your app), as well as anti-virus programs may well open and scan your file. I was also thinking about the 127-character limit on

Re: lingo-l using an non standard shape as a button

2003-09-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 15:37 America/Chicago, Jeremy P. McKay wrote: Hi All, I want to use a star shape for mouse events? Is there any way to do this other than using a bunch of squares and rectangles? Umm, if you mean make a shape visually cut out on the screen, look at matte ink. If

Re: lingo-l detecting quicktime player

2003-09-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 15:39 America/Chicago, matt johansson wrote: can anyone point me to a good script that detects the quicktime player from a projector? With or without using 'the quickTimeVersion'? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC |

Re: lingo-l Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra

2003-09-01 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 15:51 America/Chicago, Tab Julius wrote: Does it always delete the file? If the file is in use (for instance, some process has it open - you perhaps, if you didn't close it) - it won't be able to be deleted, at least not without rebooting in between or killing the

Re: lingo-l field and miaw

2003-08-31 Thread Howdy-Tzi
on getValue me value -- do whatever, such as put value end Sorry. Don't use the 'me': on getValue value -- do whatever, such as put value end Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/

Re: lingo-l Slide Show question

2003-08-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 21:54 America/Chicago, Pier de Sanctis wrote: I have a relatively simple question regarding the creation of a slide show. Search through the articles at director-online.com Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting

Re: lingo-l printing from shockwave

2003-08-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 11:54 America/Chicago, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote: How can I print something from a shockwave movie? Apparently PrintOMatic works on the Windows side to do that. is there a Picture exporter that works with shockwave? Yes, there is. I believe ShockFiler can do

Re: lingo-l field and miaw

2003-08-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 15:19 America/Chicago, director wrote: hi everyone, how do you get the value of a field in a MIAW. Would you clarify your question please? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming

Re: lingo-l re deleting from a text file with fileIO -is this a bug ?

2003-08-28 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 12:11 America/Chicago, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: I think the PropSave Xtra is one of the least known yet most useful secrets in all Xtra-dom. Yes, it's quite a useful tool... And at a great price! ;) It's located at http://pimz.com/?id=xtrassection=propsave

Re: lingo-l sorting is such sweet sorrow

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:02 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote: Intersting. [1, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5] is correct. [1, 2, 3,4,5,10] is correct. Hmmm...now I gotta figure out a way of dealing nicely with this. Context? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares

Re: lingo-l BaFileList() and .sort

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:39 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: They *are* in order, alphanetically speaking. We have a new word for the English language! I like it! Alphanetically is something my [Chinese] wife would come up with ^_^ Listen, just because you're hooked up with Lucy

Re: lingo-l Bloody stupid HP drivers

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:46 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: This is XP Pro, the closest Microsoft has come to a stable OS yet. And it still crashes. Curse HP. Why do they make such great hardware and such lousy software? A question for the ages. My HP32s is a brilliant calculator.

Re: lingo-l Bloody stupid HP drivers

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 11:07 America/Chicago, Mathew Ray wrote: Are you printing from director, or just general printing in other apps? My guess is from Director. The failure rate with Director and HP drivers is legendary. Nearly 100 percent, and that's a very impressive level of

Re: lingo-l Creating PDF's on the fly

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 11:31 America/Chicago, Vargas Media wrote: Hi, Is there a way to create PDF's on the fly from within Director? I read there was an article written about this but couldn't track it down. I think it might be on DOUG, director-online.com . Warren Ockrassa | President,

Re: lingo-l Bloody stupid HP drivers

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 11:40 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: Yeah. Avoid HP unless you're worried about fuel to weight ratios in a small fixed-wing hop from San Jose to El Paso, or want to calculate amortization rates on your Epson printer. It's such a nice machine, though Except it

Re: lingo-l RGB codes - got it

2003-08-25 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Aug 25, 2003, at 13:24 America/Chicago, Peter Bochan wrote: Thank you all for the help That's nice, but you still haven't said what exactly it was you were looking for. Care to share? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting

Re: lingo-l fill me in on how to do this

2003-08-21 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Aug 21, 2003, at 12:44 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate wrote: http://staff.funnygarbage.com/colin/dialogmania.dcr At 2112 bytes big, this is smaller that even one of those boxes, let alone all the ones you'll see. BTW, this may induce nausea. Why? There are no images of you in

Re: lingo-l Hijacked e-mail

2003-08-20 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 16:47 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate wrote: This is a nasty one. www.messagelabs.com/viruseye shows worldwide stats and displays them graphically. They have to adjust the scale every some hours ... I went there and it crashed my Netscape. I had to restart. Oh the

Re: lingo-l Director Programmer Position

2003-08-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 11:40 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate wrote: I found this posting this morning on Monster. It's looking for a Director programmer in Northern California. Before you all rush, it's $15-20 per hour, 10-20 hours per week. And you need to be a resident of NoCal already;

Re: lingo-l Director Programmer Position

2003-08-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 14:14 America/Chicago, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote: I found this posting this morning on Monster. It's looking for a Director programmer in Northern California. Before you all rush, it's $15-20 per hour, 10-20 hours per week. Is it bad at all?? The hourly

Re: lingo-l Superscript caracters

2003-08-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 16:02 America/Chicago, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote: is there some other HTML tags/codes that I can use instead of the sup formatting in order to represent the SQUARE (^2) in a good manner? Not that I've ever found. What I ended up having to do was parse the

Re: lingo-l help - emergency flash sound problem

2003-08-18 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 13:02 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote: Already do, but the battery is frelled. Oho, another _Farscape_ geek. Why not get a new battery? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming

Re: lingo-l Extract media files from cast

2003-08-18 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 14:01 America/Chicago, Lutz Paelike wrote: is it possible to extract media files from a director cast ? Kerry mentioned Werner's Xtra for images; you can save the #text members out as RTF and #field members as plain ASCII. But I think it might be a better approach to

Re: lingo-l government / video question

2003-08-17 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Sunday, Aug 17, 2003, at 00:48 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote: Has anyone developed any cd-roms/cbts for the government? Grimm, surely you know that given the current state of paranoia in the US, we're ALL doing video for the government, advertently or in. I'm actually finishing up

Re: lingo-l scroll bar for lingo 8.5

2003-08-17 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Sunday, Aug 17, 2003, at 05:34 America/Chicago, Batsheva Evers wrote: Does anyone have a ready scroll bar? I am looking for a scroll bar that moves a number of sprites (dynamical amount) either left-right or up-down. Hm. What solutions have you tried up until now? Have you looked over the

Re: lingo-l QT conundrum

2003-08-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Saturday, Aug 16, 2003, at 15:59 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: Is there some code around to do a QT slider? There might well be in the D-L archives, or perhaps the L-L archives. I'm pretty sure it's been done before. Or is there a way to get the slider with a non-dts sprite? Nope.

Re: lingo-l Mpeg pathing problem

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 11:22 America/Chicago, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: My problem is that everything I've tried has failed to link this video to the program. I've had to hard code the path of the video, in order for Director to be able to find it. It wasn't a problem, because the

Re: lingo-l Pass?

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 14:42 America/Chicago, Andreas Gaunitz wrote: It doesn't seem to work in Shockwave with complete reliability. I have absolutely no idea why. Works fine in *some* Win browsers and, AFAIK, all Mac ones On my comp it doesn't work with Safari 1.0 (v85) Mac-OS X 10.2.6

Re: lingo-l animating scaling of sprites

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 17:26 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: I guess pain leaves a lasting impression, no? Which is why you're sure to be immortalized. ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l Pass?

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 16:56 America/Chicago, Andreas Gaunitz wrote: That's the way behaviors work. There's an article on DOUG regarding this very issue, written by Yours Truly. Look it up. ;) I looked it up, but I'm sorry to say it doesn't work on my computer! The last, moving,

Re: lingo-l Save as binary file

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 18:12 America/Chicago, David Benman wrote: Not so fast. The DirectImage Xtra is a good xtra solution, but for a free xtra solution you can use the Sharp Image xtra available at: http://www.sharp-software.com/ I've used both recently, and they performed well.

Re: lingo-l Pass?

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 16:56 America/Chicago, Andreas Gaunitz wrote: What can I say? It works in a projector. What happens if you move the mouse when passing the clicks? (There's a SW bug that doesn't catch clicks without a mouse motion.) Heh, this wasn't easy to perform lying on the

Re: lingo-l search pdf files

2003-08-05 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 01:49 America/Chicago, Anand Ravi wrote: Sorry to ask such a simple question, but why don't you use the Very Extensive text searching facilities built into Acrobat? Acrobat can do full text searching over single files or large indexs of files. To convert the PDF to

Re: lingo-l Multiuser xtra wait full data

2003-07-31 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 21:11 America/Chicago, Rodrigo Peres wrote: My problem is that my script is sending only part of the barcode and receiving only a piece of information. How can I make my script wait the end of transmission (13 bytes) before execute anything else and more

Re: lingo-l giving information from DB

2003-07-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 06:47 America/Chicago, margarida g i r ã o wrote: This code works fine to give one video: myDBValue = dGRSGetFieldValue(video rsvideo) str = the itemDelimiter the itemDelimiter = / myCast = myDBValue.item[1] myVideo= myDBValue.item[2] the itemDelimiter = .

Re: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

2003-07-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 13:01 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd wrote: Another thought. Since #text members are Direct-to-stage by default They are? Um, then why do ink effects work on them? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

2003-07-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 14:22 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd wrote: Another thought. Since #text members are Direct-to-stage by default They are? Um, then why do ink effects work on them? Uh oh. I can't get to Director right now to verify, so I could be wrong about the default. Am I

Re: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

2003-07-29 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 00:19 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno wrote: The movie is kind of heavy and full of handlers and stuff (tens of thousands of lines of Lingo), maybe that has something to do with it. Uh. If you come across a bizarre situation like this, it is *always* a good plan

Re: lingo-l Determine where cast members are used

2003-07-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Saturday, Jul 26, 2003, at 19:44 America/Chicago, Buzz Kettles wrote: there's no easy way to do using Lingo The only way is to 'walk the score' check each sprite, accumulating a list of frame#,sprite# each time you find a match to the member you are looking for. Hey Buzz, you might

Re: lingo-l MIAW and script error

2003-07-22 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 17:30 America/Chicago, Locke Morgan wrote: I have 8 movies that I am trying to tie together under an initial console. The main console has buttons that open a MIAW for the individual movies. All works well until I try to open a 2nd movie. Would you care to share the

Re: lingo-l Error I haven't seen before

2003-07-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 19:49 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd wrote: At 12:53 2003-07-16, Kurt Griffin wrote: The application can not start as it cannot create needed files. There may not be enough free disk space. Another possibility is that if you've created a Standard projector, it

lingo-l Grammar parser in Lingo...?

2003-07-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi
Howdy all. Wondering if anyone's heard of a grammar parser behavior, object or script in Lingo. What I mean is something that can analyze the syntax of a given plain-english (!) sentence and break it down into the appropriate parts of speech: He went to the grocery store might be broken

Re: lingo-l OSX/9 bundle puzzle: foo.app = foo.app SOLVED (sort of)

2003-07-09 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 10:22 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno wrote: If someone at MM wants to improve their write-up at http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/ bundle_proj.htm my experience may be useful. The writeup is imperfect; however, examining a few .app bundles

Re: lingo-l Databases in Lingo

2003-07-09 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 12:21 America/Chicago, Diego Landro wrote: I am working on a project where i need to manage a huge quantity of images, so i need to use a databse to sort the images. Question is: can i use databases with lingo. Yes. Have a look at the Mile High Table at

Re: lingo-l where is the file start.dir?

2003-07-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Sunday, Jul 6, 2003, at 20:52 America/Chicago, Bastien Bouchard wrote: I use go movie somemovie Lingo. The movie you're trying to navigate to doesn't happen to have the same name as the projector, does it? theMovie.dxr theMovie.exe If so, that's your problem. Rename one or the other.

Re: lingo-l basic question: Lingo to test authoring or projector mode

2003-07-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 12:54 America/Chicago, Karina Steffens wrote: That's D8.5 - MX might be different. No, it's the same. MX didn't change existing Lingo. Not even line continuation characters got re-redone this time... ;) What?? But that means... Old projects could actually be

Re: lingo-l basic question: Lingo to test authoring or projector mode

2003-07-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 16:52 America/Chicago, Karina Steffens wrote: It's worse. Movies made in MX can even be opened and edited in 8.5.1 provided you haven't used the Accessibility or Flash MX Xtras. You don't get the snotty This file was made using a newer version of Director and I'm

Re: lingo-l menu across movies

2003-07-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 20:35 America/Chicago, Phil Gross wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to install a menu and have it stay installed across movies? So I don't have to reinstall it every time I jump to a new movie? Only if you load it in a stage file and do everything else via

Re: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 08:08 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: Oddly, Kerry seemed to forget reading page 402 of my book. I say oddly because he was the technical reviewer on it! ;) Oh, I remember it, all right. Unfortunately, there are still a few wretched souls who haven't be

Re: lingo-l Registering fonts

2003-07-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 08:06 America/Chicago, Andrew Dempsey wrote: I am using the buddy xtra to install a font on the user's machine by copying the font from the CD into the PCs fonts folder (win). On some machines this seems to do the trick, and the font is immediately available for

Re: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 10:33 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: Yeah, it's workable as well, of course. You can tell the MACR docs are somewhat dated as they include stepFrame events, which aren't commonly used any more. Ah well. They aren't? I use them all the time to get objects to

Re: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
[re stepframe] They aren't? I use them all the time to get objects to work in synch with the score. Oops, sorry, I though they'd been deprecated. My mistake. I was thinking of perFrameHook! Dang, talk about a neuronal misfire... -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-01 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 23:46 America/Chicago, Anand Ravi wrote: Thanks a lot for this info Kerry. I am sure this come in useful for a lot of us. :) Oddly, Kerry seemed to forget reading page 402 of my book. I say oddly because he was the technical reviewer on it! ;) Warren Ockrassa |

Re: lingo-l flash object..

2003-07-01 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 23:47 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote: Yeah, thanks for the huge slap to my head. Damn. Grimm was getting slaps to he head and I missed it? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l Archives?

2003-06-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 13:48 America/Chicago, Cole Tierney wrote: I should know this. Where are the archives for this list? http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Or for Idioms around the world and how they compare: http://postal.tamu.edu/archives/lingo-l.html One can also look at

Re: lingo-l setScriptList

2003-06-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 15:06 America/Chicago, Matt Wells wrote: --But, Shouldn't this remove it??? on endSprite me (7).setScriptList([]) end endSprite Not if you haven't specified that 7 is a sprite: sprite(7).setScriptList([]) However, again, check this list's archives, Macromedia's

Re: lingo-l totally stumped

2003-06-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 15:31 America/Chicago, Neil wrote: Hi Chris Here's some code for you to play with in an empty movie. Hopefully it shows how you can set your #qualifications property up and be able to access and set the data inside of it. In addition to the samples and suggestions

Re: lingo-l script error

2003-06-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Jun 26, 2003, at 05:06 America/Chicago, Prasis wrote: What I cannot figure out is, these codes run on the director stage but when I make a projector file and click on the specific button then it gives the message script error. Have you included the Buddy API Xtra in your projector?

Re: lingo-l UpgradingOldProjects

2003-06-25 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 11:13 America/Chicago, Bruce Powell wrote: I've been asked to upgrade a CD (projector) done in 8.5 to MX for use on System X and multiple platforms. Haven't upgraded my 8.5 to MX yet. Very intimidated by the Macromedia Tech Note on creating projectors with MX,

Re: lingo-l baVersion( os )

2003-06-25 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 13:11 America/Chicago, Liz wrote: Code below. Your code's too complex. All you need is this: on exitFrame me myOS = the environment.osVersion go to frame myOS end Part of the problem is you're using 'contains', and it's likely that since the osVersion

Re: lingo-l baVersion( os )

2003-06-25 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 21:18 America/Chicago, Liz wrote: Here's the deal. I have a small executable and several dcr files. When I open the dcr file from my executable I get 98 detected. If I create a projector instead of a dialer I get ME detected. OH! OK. OK. Back in the day there

Re: lingo-l [OT] UK Kiosks

2003-06-24 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 10:45 America/Chicago, Ben Wakeford wrote: Hi all - sorry for the slightly OT, but does anyone have an experience with producing Director presentations for kiosks? Where's the best place to buy (UK based), any common pitfalls, average costs etc. The Elo touchscreen

Re: lingo-l scriptInstanceList

2003-06-24 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 16:11 America/Chicago, Quixadá wrote: hi, rob yes, you´re right, that´s exactly my problem. i´ve made a simple dir just to show what´s happening. here are the scripts: The very first thing you should do is put the sendAllSprites call *outside* of your repeat loop.

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